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Exploring the Interactive Effects of Remittances, Socio-Economic Development and Migration
No full textImplementing Sports Development Programmes
No full textThis chapter explores the implementation of sports development programmes. It begins with a brief summary of key theories and concepts. It develops by exploring the implementation of sports development programmes using three criteria for analysis: the utility of Theories of Change to enact policy; the development and evaluation of partnership working; and the increasing importance and prominence of monitoring and evaluation in demonstrating impact. The deployment of implementation and enactment strategies reflect and respond to the anticipated interaction between the specific programme and the context it is seeking to influence or change. Consideration is required of the different types of evidence required for successful implementation of a policy in practice through the management of a programme. The nature of the problem, the range of potential solutions, and the beliefs, values and capacity of individuals and organisations involved or affected are all relevant to enacting policy and which approaches will enable effective delivery
Philosophy of education in a new key:Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Education and environment after the coronavirus
No full textThis collective writing, led by Jandrić and shaped by the voices of multiple contributors, interrogates the intersection of education, environmental crisis, and global disruption in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It opens with the haunting question: who remembers Greta Thunberg?—not as a provocation about individual memory, but as an invitation to reflect on how collective attention shifts, how crises compete, and how educational futures are rewritten under pressure. The piece navigates the fragile terrain between environmental urgency and pandemic-induced uncertainty. It refuses to treat these as separate events. Instead, it views them as part of a broader ecological and epistemological reckoning, one that implicates education not only as a site of learning, but as a cultural and political apparatus capable of both reproducing crisis and fostering transformation. The collective writing format mirrors the very entanglements the piece explores. It brings together divergent yet interwoven perspectives, forming a dialogic response to the interconnectedness of planetary health, public discourse, and pedagogical responsibility. This is not a single argument delivered in consensus, but a polyphonic meditation on how we remember, reprioritise, and act. Rather than offering environmental education as a technical fix or curricular add-on, the authors explore it as a deeply ethical practice, one that must contend with attention, urgency, justice, and care. They question how educational institutions respond to crisis, and whether those responses are merely adaptive or genuinely transformative. This is a call to re-centre the ecological in education, but also to rethink how crisis itself is conceptualised. The piece asks what education must become—not after the pandemic or climate emergency, but within them. It insists that remembering Greta Thunberg is not about a person, but about the memory of a moment—and the challenge to act on it now
Caring with[in] Uncertainty
No full textThis chapter attends to the connection between care and design, focusing on embracing uncertainty as a fundamental principle. To better understand and articulate our ideas, we used the practice of collaboratively designing, making, and printing an image that represents a timeline of care – Care in Motion: Relational Waves and the Importance of Uncertainty (Figure 12.1). Through this process, we explored how care is an active practice embedded in complexity and uncertainty that contradicts reductive interpretations aligned with quantification. We introduce the concept of the “obligation of care”, challenging conventional notions that care is a commodity. Instead, we advocate for a shift towards more complex and situated understandings aligned with lived experiences and change-making agendas. By highlighting the inseparable relational connections between care, emotions, and bodies, we address dimensions of care often neglected by common design approaches. We discuss the importance of uncertainty, a quality inherent to design and care, and recognise that this fosters creativity and adaptability. Embracing uncertainty becomes central to our perspective, encouraging a transition from a quantifiable, inflexible, and mechanistic approach to an open, messy, emotional, and grounded in embodied experiences. We emphasise that this shift aligns with both design and design practices, as well as care and caregiving practices, drawing on insights from these areas alongside our personal experiences. Our discussion underscores the significance of comprehending design and care as both situated and relational, as we always navigate and co-exist with[in] conditions of perpetual uncertainty. We explore the concept of “radical uncertainties”, emphasising how care and design can navigate complex, ever-evolving challenges. The collaborative creation of Care in Motion exemplifies our approach, functioning as a representation and practice of uncertainty. This playful engagement deepens our understanding of design and care as inherently situated, relational, and perpetually unfolding within conditions of uncertainty. Ultimately, this chapter calls for a transformation in how care and design are conceived to work towards compassionate and responsive practices within and for uncertain futures of change-making
Enhancing Brand Equity Through Responsible Marketing and CSR
No full textIn today’s interconnected world, traditional marketing methods are rapidly evolving to meet the growing demand for socially and ethically responsible practices. Organizations must adapt their marketing strategies to align with these changing expectations, making responsible marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives essential for building and maintaining strong brand equity. This chapter explores how responsible marketing and CSR initiatives contribute to enhanced brand equity by drawing on influential frameworks, including Carroll’s CSR Pyramid, Stakeholder Theory, Aaker’s Brand Equity Model, and Keller’s Brand Resonance Theory. By integrating these theoretical perspectives with practical evidence, it demonstrates how responsible practices cultivate consumer trust, loyalty, and positive brand associations, ultimately boosting both brand equity and organizational performance. Furthermore, this chapter explores ways to measure the success of responsible marketing initiatives by suggesting several metrics developed using the Balanced Scorecard framework
Responsibility Without Origin: Performativity, Vulnerability and Responsiveness in the Work of Judith Butler
No full textThis chapter examines Judith Butler's conceptualization of responsibility, which emerges through relationality and vulnerability, emphasizing how bodies and identities are performatively produced through social norms and political structures. It critiques Butler's reliance on Emmanuel Levinas to theorize ethical responsibility, highlighting tensions between any preontological relationality and the socialized ontology of ethical obligations. The distinction between responsibility as relationally constituted and responsiveness as politically mediated is explored, proposing a performative framework where responsibility emerges iteratively through acts of responsiveness. This reframing avoids grounding ethics in ontological origins, aligning with Butler's notion of precarity as a political condition that shapes ethical encounter
From Artist-Architect to Salaried Architect:The Examination of Professional Practice in West Berlin, 1967-1977
No full textThis chapter provides new insights into the debates around professional practice and architectural education in the context of the student movement in West Berlin between 1967 and 1977, and the subsequent attempts at architectural workers’ organisation in unions. The protagonists developed the most extensive critique of architecture under the conditions of the valorisation of capital. The architecture students saw their education as not relevant enough for their professional practice. According to them, it emphasised the self-realisation of the individual architect in design over the reality of their salaried work. Instead, they demanded a more contemporary, scientific, cooperative, and interdisciplinary education that was based on the understanding of the position of the salaried architect in the social labour process of building production. The struggle for the reform of architectural education established moments of solidarity between students and professionals in teach-ins around education and organisation. They were both concerned that the reactionary job profile of the autonomous self-employed architect meant that only a few employed architects identified themselves with their changed status as heteronomous salaried architects. This chapter highlights the understanding of architects as wage labourers and their political practice via the integration into the worker’s movement through labour organisation and active participation in unions
A neurodivergent-affirming approach to matrescence:Empowerment through person-centred and strengths-based occupational therapy practices
No full textNeurodivergent mothers face barriers to, and challenges with, many mothering occupations. These issues often differ to those experienced by neurotypical peers, and include lack of recognition, inaccessibility to tailored support services, extreme exhaustion, isolation, and social support gaps, and sensory struggles during, for instance, breastfeeding. Neurodivergent mothers are often mothering neurodivergent children, given the strong genetic influence for many of these neurotypes. Many neurodivergent mothers demonstrate significant determination and resilience to overcome challenges and perform mothering occupations in unique ways, which require awareness, respect, affirming approaches, and cultural humility perspectives from health professionals.This chapter explores how occupational therapists work with girls and women’s unique experiences owing to neurodivergence and sensory processing differences. Having heightened empathy, creative problem-solving, distinct communication styles, and sensitivities impact functional and wellbeing capacities, many of which can be reframed and shaped into strengths to enable occupational enablement and empowerment. Empowering strategies encompass prioritising self-care, forming supportive networks, using technology and tools, advocating for children's needs, and embracing unique parenting approaches. <br/
Gradient Whispering in Decentralized Federated Learning:Covert Channel Through AI Model Update Paths
No full textFederated learning faces significant data privacy challenges, with threats like inference attacks, model inversion attacks, and poisoning attacks. Existing methods struggle to balance privacy, security, and accuracy, resulting in suboptimal performance. Furthermore, many solutions extend training and communication time, increasing costs and reducing overall system efficiency and value. This paper proposes “gradient whispering” covert communication to address these issues. Adjusting gradients in federated learning changes the optimization path while maintaining model efficacy. “Gradient whispering” introduces two embedding schemes: gradient direction-based embedding and gradient magnitude-based embedding, designed to incorporate information during the iterative updates of AI models. These two schemes can be applied independently or in combination to enhance the flexibility of the embedding process. When used together, they further expand the embedding capacity, thereby maximizing the effectiveness of information embedding. MNIST and CIFAR-10 dataset trials demonstrate model accuracy stays stable post-embedding with fluctuations under 0.3%. Two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov tests and Kullback–Leibler divergence analysis show no statistical difference between pre- and post-embedding gradient distributions. Peak signal-to-noise ratio values of 40 to 50 indicate a strong similarity between the embedded and original gradients, hiding hidden information and guaranteeing model stabilit
Early childhood education policy in England since 2010:an overview
No full textThis chapter takes a broad perspective on policy changes and debates in the provision of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services in England since 2010. After a brief overview of ECEC policy during the period, which indicates that the intensity of policy declined significantly after the end of the Coalition Government in 2015, it focuses on three areas. The first is school readiness, a longstanding issue which gained renewed importance in the context of successive Conservative-led governments’ concern with social mobility. The second is the Early Years Pupil Premium, introduced in 2015, which offered additional funding for three and four-year-olds from disadvantaged backgrounds. The final area is the enduring influence of the preceding Labour Government’s Sure Start programme, which was cut significantly by the incoming coalition in 2010, but which continues to dominate ECEC policy discourse in England